Tamil Nadu girl scolded for TikTok dependancy by husband; drank poison, despatched video through WhatsApp

A 24-year outdated mom of two youngsters dedicated suicide on Thursday in Tamil Nadu after she was scolded by her husband and prevented from utilizing the brief video-making app. Anitha, recorded herself as she drank the poison after which despatched the video through WhatsApp to her husband, who’s in Singapore.

In response to media stories, Anitha’s husband Pazhanivel didn’t admire his spouse’s TikTok dependancy and had requested her to give up the behavior. In her final video, Anitha is seen ingesting a darkish colored liquid from a white bottle earlier than breaking into hysterical cough. She died quickly after.

The incident has attracted large criticism on-line. Some information channels who revealed the video on YouTube have infact, disabled feedback for the video. Owned by Chinese language firm ByteDance, the brief video sharing platform claims to have over 120 million month-to-month energetic customers in India.

This isn’t the primary time TikTok has led to any individual’s dying. Earlier in January, a Mumbai-based 15-year outdated hung her self at her residence on her birthday after her grandmother scolded her for consistently being hooked on TikTok.

Later in April, Salman Zakir, a 19-year-old Delhi resident was by accident shot by his pal who was attempting to make a TikTok video. After such alarming incidences, the Madras Excessive Court docket handed an interim order banning cell app citing inappropriate and pornographic content material in April.

Deciding the case filed by advocate Muthukumar, the bench vacated its interim order banning the app, topic to situations that pornographic movies is not going to be uploaded on it, failing which contempt of court docket proceedings would start. The app was pulled down from each, Google Play Retailer and Apple’s App Retailer till April 25 – a day after the Madras Excessive Court docket’s Madurai Bench lifted the ban.

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